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EU should help payments markets work better

September 3, 2018

March, 2018 the European Commission proposed requiring better disclosure of credit-card foreign-exchange fees and that charges on intra-EU cross-border euro and domestic non-euro payments be the same. To improve payments markets and further economic integration, the EU has intervened repeatedly. Interventions may be justified and useful where there’s a market structural problem or imperfection harming… » read more

  Posted by The Atlanticist

blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EU Priorities and Opinion, Euro & Finance, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth

Brexit, Open Banking and the FinTech Revolution

April 11, 2018

  Guest post by Mark Cummins. Mark Cummins is Professor of Finance at the Dublin City University Business School and Head of the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship Academic Group. He holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance. He will speak further on this topic at a special event on “Brexit and Financial Services” on 12 April… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Brexit, Competition, digital, Economy & Euro, Euro & Finance, Financial Services, Future EU, Global Europe

Rule of law conditionalities – why not focus on misuse and corruption?

    Guest post by MEP Benedek Jávor. Cohesion policy is an important tool of solidarity within the European Union. Since the 2004 accession wave this European flow of sources contributed on an altering level to the convergence, and at the same time in the majority of the so-called new Member States, it represented a… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

Better regulation, blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EurActiv.com, Financial Services, Future EU

Countering a corruption counter-revolution in Romania

March 8, 2018

Guest blog post by Nicolas Tenzer. Tenzer is chairman of the Paris-based Centre for Study and Research for Political Decision (CERAP). Institutions of democratic transparency and judicial independence recast as a “deep state.” A ruling party determined to stand by criminally tainted figures. George Soros invoked as an insidious force fomenting political instability. That description… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Bulgarian, Business & Climate Change, Competition, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Globalisation, Romanian

Contraband, Counterfeit and People – A Brexit Smuggler’s Charter for Customs

Guest post by Cambre CEO Tom Parker. With the EU to set out its latest guidelines on the Brexit negotiations later today, much attention will be given to the negative reception to Theresa May’s pick and mix approach to accessing the single market. In particular, financial services and her dashed hopes for the City continuing… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Brexit, Competition, Digital Single Market, Economy & Euro, EurActiv.com, Financial Services, Global Europe, Globalisation

Mr Magoo Goes To Washington

March 5, 2018

Guest blog post by Stefan Rating, an expert in competition and regulatory Law at Rating Legis SLP and a former European Commission special assistant to the Director General of DG Competition. Today, the European Commission cleared a merger first announced on January 16th, 2017 and notified on August 22nd., Essilor/Luxottica (M. 8394). Unusually after a… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro

The Western Sahara Case : Montesquieu is the one who is murdered!

February 26, 2018

Guest post by Jean-Jacques Neuer, Lawyer-Solicitor On 27 February, the European Court of Justice – ECJ – is about to pronounce a judgement invalidating all agreements made by the European Union with China because of the latter’s presence in Tibet, with Russia as it has annexed Crimea and with the United States, which does not… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe

EC funds are not the way to spur venture capital and innovation in the EU

December 22, 2017

Venture capital funds relatively risky businesses with significant upside. It’s expensive capital. When successful however it has an outsized economic impact. Think PayPal, Square, Google, Facebook Amazon, and Uber. EC bureaucrats worry the EU has insufficient venture capital and is therefore disadvantaged relative to the US in creating big, transformational businesses. When Brussels perceives a… » read more

  Posted by The Atlanticist

blogactiv, Competition, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth

Don’t throw the Chaebol baby out with the corrupt bath water

November 22, 2017

Guest post by Gabriel A. Giménez Roche, assistant professor of economics at NEOMA Business School, and associate researcher at the Institut Économique Molinari   At a time when the nuclear menace of North Korea becomes increasingly serious, South Korea is also threatened from within by a series of high impact financial scandals. To face it,… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Competition, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Trade & Society

Poland on the Road to Electromobility

September 20, 2017

Guest post by Michal Kurtyka, PHD Electromobility is one of the several strategic directions for Poland’s economic development in the near term. On March 16, 2017, the Polish government adopted the Electromobility Development Plan, which set goals and directions for action in this area until 2025. The energy composition of transport fuels, shaped through history,… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Competition, Development Policy, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Polish, Science & Research, Transport

Small European businesses vs. new EU VAT bureaucracy

September 8, 2017

Guest post by Christian Borggreen, Vice President of CCIA Europe An often overlooked European success story is how hundred of thousands of European small companies have thrived thanks to the Internet. With a few clicks on the keyboard, the smallest European firm can now export to consumers across the EU, and the rest of the… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

Better regulation, blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, taxation

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#Media4EU Tour d’Europe: Why cross-border cooperation makes for a fitter Digital Europe

October 19, 2016

. This blog post belongs to the #Media4EU Tour d’Europe series. Read the project outline, timetable and deliverables here, and the list of its steering committee here. Fondation EurActiv and the Institut d’Études Européennes (ULB) are initiating the ‘Media4EU Tour d’Europe’ project. This will gather perspectives from top quality media in Europe and propose initiatives… » read more

  Posted by Media4EU

blogactiv, Communication Policy, Competition

Industry strengthens its fight against counterfeiting

July 6, 2016

Counterfeiting is bad news for everyone, bar fraudsters. Consumers are exposed to inferior or dangerous products, brands lose their value and online platforms like Allegro risk their reputation as trustworthy marketplaces. Although legal instruments to prevent IPR infringements, such as the IPR Enforcement and E-Commerce Directives, exist at EU/national level, they can be complemented by… » read more

  Posted by The eCommerce Blog - by Allegro Group

blogactiv, Competition, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Trade & Industry
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